Postgraduates and Graduates of the Centre for Postcolonial Writing
Postgraduates
Dale Ahern
Research Project
The Operation of Narrative in Australian Belonging and Identity
This creative writing thesis explores the role of narrative in constituting identity and belonging for non-indigenous Australians. Throughout the protagonist’s identity crisis, the past, the present, and place each are revealed as subjects narrated both by individuals and the ‘nation’. The thesis considers how one might narrate in a way better representative of the Australian experience, in order to achieve a better sense of belonging and identity.
Publications
- Editor. Not Long (Monash University, 2005)
- The Push. Eclection (Matchbox Publications, 2003)
Sophie Cunningham
Research Project
This devastating Fever: A novel about the relationship between Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf (née Stephens) from the years 1911-1915
Publications
- Dharma is a Girl’s Best Friend (forthcoming)
- The History of Australian Television, Introducing Sociology. Place, Time and Division Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan (Eds), (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- Geography (Text Publishing, April. 2004; UK: Black Swan, July 2004) Shortlisted for the Best First Book category in the SE Asia & South Pacific Region of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
- ‘Mad in India’, in Meanjin (Vol. 63, No. 2, 2004)
- ‘Jumping the Shark: Does the End of Sexual Tension Mean the End of Your Favorite TV Show’, in Lounge Critic: the couch theorist’s companion, Annabel Rattigan & Terrie Waddell (Eds), (ACMI, 2004)
- ‘Buddhist Bootcamp’, The Best Australian Essays 2000, Peter Craven (Ed), (Bookman Press, 2000)
Sanghamitra Dalal
Research Project
Journeys in Self-Fashioning: South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Australia
Elin-Maria Evangelista
Research Project
Christina’s Going Away. A novel set in Sweden and Exegesis: The Creative Self in Translation: Narrative, Language and Voice when Writing in a Second Language
How does the translation process affect a narrative set in a specific culture, language and dialect when it is being written in a second language? My thesis examines notions of a true self/language, challenges of cultural translation “the third space” in between languages, memory and the significance of distance.
Publications
- ‘A walk in the past: remembering Sweden’ in MPA Compass Online.
Adib Khan
Research Project
Song of Jackals. A novel about the effect of globalisation on a rural community in a developing nation
Publications
- Spiral Road (Pymble, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2007)
- Homecoming (Pymble, N.S.W. : Flamingo, 2003)
- The Storyteller (Pymble, N.S.W. : Flamingo, 2000)
- Solitude of illusions (St. Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 1996)
- Seasonal adjustments (St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1994)
- Poetry examined (Melbourne : Heinemann Educational Australia, 1983)
Prizes and Awards
- Seasonal Adjustments was shortlisted for the 1994 Age Book of the Year Award
- Seasonal Adjustments 1994 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Book of the Year and the 1995 Commonwealth Writer’s prize for Best Book.
- Solitude of Illusion won the 1997 Tilly Aston Braille Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 1997 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and 1997 Ethnic Affairs Commission Award.
Dona Anuradha Malalasekara
Research Project
Difficulties encountered in translating postcolonial writing: A study in Pragmatic aspects (With reference to translation of fiction from Sinhalese to English)
Publications
- Ghathakayo Saha Thavath Katha Translated Short Stories. Joint Authorship. (Colombo: S. Godage Brothers, 2003)
- Udu Athata hari Thibuna Muhuna Saha Thavath Katha Translated Short Stories. Joint Authorship. (Colombo: S. Godage Brothers, 2003)
Pooja Mittal
Research Project
Writing home: Political dissidence and the literature of exile
Publications
- Diaries of a Marked Man (New Zealand: Zenith)
- Musings: about Poetry (New Zealand: Zenith, 2005)
- Poetry New Zealand ‘Featured Poet’ (23, 2001)
Isabella Ofner
Research Project
Landscapes of Longing and Loss. Western and Tibetan literary representations of Tibet
My research project examines the legacy of Orientalist fantasy-making in contemporary Western literature on Tibet and contrasts Western constructions of place and the sacred with Tibetan writings on Tibet.
Graduates
Anne-Marie Brownhill
Research Title
Outside In: An exploration of postcolonial themes and postmodern techique in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses
Awards and Prizes
Centre for Postcolonial Writing Honours Scholarship